Freeview channels thread

Your TV has acquired the rights to Castle. Whats next NCIS, The Closer, Monk? Or The Orville/The Walking Dead free to air premieres? How do rights work? Didn't Bull premiere on FOX then free-to-air on 5USA, Why wasn't it shown free-to-air then on Your TV instead? Has Your TV taken the FTA rights for Castle from 5USA?
It seems to be veering away more from the true crime series that filled it's schedule when it first launched. It now airs scripted shows such as Bones, Law and Order, Body of Proof. If it was further up the Freeview EPG it could compete more with 5USA. But I doubt that will happen. Could we see Your TV acquiring first run scripted series in the future like 5USA or will they just be on FOXFORD?

Does PBS even broadcast Current affairs or Art Programme anymore?

Most of its schedule is reliant on documentaries from culture and science, to history. Although they did air a music documentary at the start of the year.

So it watch it like a hawk for the other strands

PBS America used to show the NewsHour, didn't it? Shame it doesn't do so now.

The Channel just seems to be filled with WW2 stuff... I dont just dont see the point of it.

CBS Drama are finally dropping the 2 hour Judge Judy block 8pm - 10pm weekdays!

Starting on 12th February, the new lineup will be:

7pm Touched by an Angel
8pm ER (from the start)
9pm Medium
10pm Dynasty (from the start)
11pm Bad Girls (from the start)

All of it is actually drama!

Judge Judy isn't banished completely but it's no longer in primetime which is a huge step forward.

The addition of a gameshow at 5pm is an odd one though, double bills of Wheel of Fortune.

This might be a good time to rebrand the station aswell.

It's odd that they have CBS Reality, CBS Drama, CBS Action and, for all intents and purposes, CBS Horror but they don't have a general entertainment channel so we get things like Judge Judy and gameshows on the drama channel.

Considering the amount of repeats too, couldn't they just merge Drama and Action into a CBS UK style channel that can show a mix of programming, including the aforementioned Judge Judy and gameshows and leave the true life murder/crime stuff to CBS Reality and cutting down on how often the same programmes are shown over and over? Even the same handful of promos are repeated when entering and exiting a break in a programme and they are incredibly tedious to have to sit through every single time.

The reason behide the promos had been explanded else where. It to drill home important shows to viewers etc foces promotion....

When it did show the PBS Newshour, it was always at least a day old, it was never live. It was pretty useless then, and unless they aired it live, it would be pretty useless now.

Current affairs would be the Frontline or Frontline/World programmes.